Educational device



Nov. 10,1925. 1,560,994 F. D. .loNEs EDUCATIONAL DEVICE Filed March 25. 1922 abdefghs jkl Patented Nov. 10, 1925,

UNITED STATES FREDERICK D. JONES, OF ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.

EDUCATIONAL DEVICE.

Application filed March 25, 1922.

To all fwLov/zt may conce/rfa:

Be it known that I, Fnnnnnrcii l). JONES, a. citizen of the United States, and a residentof the city of Alhambra, county of Los Angeles, and State of California, have invented novel and useful Educational Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the art of education and has for its objects to provide a light, cheapq compact and durable index device comprisinga series of receptacles or card spaces adapted to receive printed drill cards for the use of pupils of the lower grades in public and private schools and elsewhere; wherein such cards may be retained in compact and orderly manner; may be removed or replaced readily; and having' graphically displayed thereon letters, figures, words,lpic turcs or other characters of an educational nature, all designed to assist'the pupil in spellingdrills, word building, counting, addition, sentence and story buildingand the like.

I attain these objects by means of a novel and useful provision, formation and combination of parts to form4 a partitioned iudened container adapted to receive educa tional drill cards, said container' orv index ldevice presenting in graphic form educational features and elements thereon, as shown in the acconipafnying;l drawings, in which- Figure l. is a perspective of the device partitioned for twenty-sir; receptacles and `:graphically displayinipi letters ot' the alpha het and a series of figures for specific educational purposes.

` Figure 2 is a broken perspective of the reverse side of the device graphically displaying a series of figures to indicate the contents of the several receptacles, together with educational. drill cards therein,

It will he apparent that other graphic characters may be displayed on the device, as words or pictures, for educational drills therewith.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, an oblong rectangular body` 1, prefern ably of wood, is provided with transverse saw-cuts or Vspaced depressions, 3, throughout its length and for a part of its depth; and sides, preferably of cardboard, (2), attached to said body to form a Aseries of Serial No. 546,837.

receptacles or card only.

One side, (Figure 1,) is provided with three rows of characters graphically displayed thereon, an upper row, t, comprisingl the small or lower case letters of the alphabet, each letter placed to indicate its respective receptacle alphabetically arranged; a. lower row, 6, graphically displaying the capital or upper case letters of the alphabet similarly placed; and a center row, 5, comprising a series of ligures indicatingl the number of the respective lettered cards normally to be found in the designated receptacle.

The reverse side (Figure 2), is provided with a row of figures or numbers, 7, graphically ldisplayed thereon, each placed to designate its respective receptacle, consecutively aranged. Cards, 8, bearing' printed characters corresponding with those graphically displayed on the side of the 'device, are provided in combination for the drill desired for the pupil.

It will be apparent that for sentence and storydniilcling drills the device would display words or pictures instead of letters and figures shown in the drawings, the words to be indexed by their initial letters and pictures by the initial letters of their' several descriptive words, all to correspond with the words or pictures printed on the educational drill cards.

In combination with educational drill cards bearing` letters printed thereon, an oblong, rectangular body, of wood, and provided with relatively narrow transverse saw cuts therein spaced to leave standing partitions separating the same, adapted to forni receptacles to receive said cards; said body being provided with sides of suitable .rnate rial to close the ends of said saw-cuts, and having` printed thereon. opposite each of said receptacles letters corresponding to the letters on said cards normally contained within said receptacles; and numerals printed on said sides to indicate the number of each of said printed cards normally contained in each receptacle.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this application.

` FREDERICK D. JONES.

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